The concept of disability
Disability affects everyone. This video introduces the biopsychosocial model, showing how disability arises from both personal and environmental factors.
This video introduces the construction industry to how we might understand functional impairment and disability as something which can come to influence everybody’s life. This is done by explaining the ‘biopsychosocial model of disability’. The model shows that disability occurs as a consequence of the individual, social, medical, and built context, never from any one of these alone.
References
- The disability model: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF, page 9.
- Boys, J. (2014). Doing disability differently: An alternative handbook on architecture, dis/ability and designing for everyday life. Routledge.
- Boys, J. (Ed.). (2017). Disability, space, architecture: A reader. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.Hendren, S. (2020). What can a body do? How we meet the built world. Riverhead Books.
- Hall, P., & Imrie, R. (1999). Architectural practices and disabling design in the built environment. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 26(3), 409–425. https://doi.org/10.1068/b260409
- Kajita, M. (2017). Re-Addressing the Social Dimension of Accessibility. In K. Lotz, D. Simpson, K. M. Raahauge, K. Vindum, M. Jerl Jensen, & J. Rosenberg Bendsen (Eds.), Forming welfare (1. edition, pp. 280–291). Danish Architectural Press.
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